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Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics
Rudolf A. Makkreel
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Description for Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics
Hardcover. Provides an approach to meeting the challenges faced by philosophical hermeneutics in interpreting an ever-changing and multicultural world. The author shows that a crucial task of hermeneutical critique is to establish priorities among the contexts that may be brought to bear on the interpretation of history and culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
This book provides an innovative approach to meeting the challenges faced by philosophical hermeneutics in interpreting an ever-changing and multicultural world. Rudolf A Makkreel proposes an orientational and reflective conception of interpretation in which judgment plays a central role. Moving beyond the dialogical approaches found in much of contemporary hermeneutics, he focuses instead on the diagnostic use of reflective judgment, not only to discern the differentiating features of the phenomena to be understood, but also to orient us to the various contexts that can frame their interpretation. Makkreel develops overlooked resources of Kant's transcendental thought in order to reconceive hermeneutics ... Read more
This book provides an innovative approach to meeting the challenges faced by philosophical hermeneutics in interpreting an ever-changing and multicultural world. Rudolf A Makkreel proposes an orientational and reflective conception of interpretation in which judgment plays a central role. Moving beyond the dialogical approaches found in much of contemporary hermeneutics, he focuses instead on the diagnostic use of reflective judgment, not only to discern the differentiating features of the phenomena to be understood, but also to orient us to the various contexts that can frame their interpretation. Makkreel develops overlooked resources of Kant's transcendental thought in order to reconceive hermeneutics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226249315
SKU
V9780226249315
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About Rudolf A. Makkreel
Rudolf A. Makkreel is the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies and Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: The Hermeneutical Impact of the "Critique of Judgment," the last published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of Dilthey's Selected Works.
Reviews for Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics
"Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics is a momentous and significant book, not only for the philosophical discipline of hermeneutics but also, because of its impeccable clarity, a much larger audience. It is, above all, a synthetic work, Makkreel's own original contribution to hermeneutics in the global world of the twenty-first century." (Rodolphe Gasche, University at Buffalo, State University of New ... Read more